Haiku June: Day 1

This has been an extremely stressful time in our family, due to reasons I will elaborate upon soon. It will continue to be stressful for the foreseeable future. I think a little moment of quiet contemplation each day will help to minimize this, and so I am writing one haiku per day for the month of June. I encourage each of you to do the same, whether in your own journals or -preferably- in the Comments section of the post. It's not hard: 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. This is flexible though. A haiku traditionally has a piece of the natural world in at least one of the 5 senses included, examples are "yellow moon," "smell of pine," or "woodpecker knocking." Beyond that, even in the traditional sense, there's a lot of room for whatever describes a moment or a thought. In short, don't worry too much about rules, but the rules help serve as a framework.

Biking Mount Kigali,

Heart pounding, fully aware,

fine dust on switchbacks.